DeKalb Times

Tessa Truemper Choi is among the Illinois parents taking matters in their own hands when it comes to opposing critical race theory.

Truemper Choi recently shared a St. Charles Illinois Area Neighbors Facebook post urging parents  opposed to CRT/Deep Equity teachings to request an opt-out form for their children.

“We need to overwhelm the district,” the post said. “They will have to make concessions for those children whose parents have opted out. If we can’t get the district to cancel their contract, we can at least take back control over what we want the schools teaching our children.”

Truemper Choi is hardly alone among concerned parents in expressing her outrage, even as their pushback has come with a price.

Radio host and black father Ty Smith recently shared he feels targeted since blasting the teachings as “nonsense,” adding “how do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed? The very type of person that they were talking about, that was down, and suppressed, and oppressed, and … disproportionate, and for me to be able to come out of that, to work my way through school to get where I am, I just call BS on it.”

Smith likewise didn’t mince words when recently speaking at a District 87 School Board meeting where he warned that he fears the teachings will do more harm than good when it comes to the impact they stand to have on the minds of young, impressionable students.

“How to dislike each other, that’s pretty much all it's going to come down to,” Smith said in a video posted to YouTube. “You’re going to deliberately teach kids this white kid got it better than you because he’s white. You’re going to purposely tell a white kid all the black people are down and oppressed. How do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed? No mom, no dad in the house, I worked my way through college.”